Robot Octopus Swims Like Biological Counterpart

A new octopus that is not biological swims the same way that a real one would. The bot, which was shown off at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), which takes place annually in Karlsruhe, Germany showed off the robot in a tank in order to demonstrate the swimming motion.

HGST Travelstar 5K1500 Notebook Drive: 1.5TB in Slim 9.5mm Casing

Most laptops support hard drives of
only up to a 9.5 millimetre thickness, and before now the largest
data capacity available within that thickness was one terabyte. For
those select few who need more than that, HGST has arrived with a
solution.

German Industrial Robots Turned Aussie GPS Testers

It looks like robots, that were designed to do heavy work in factories in Germany, are going to be going on a new adventure. They are going to be used to help test the relability of the GPS systems down under in the outback.The systems data will be used to refine the system and help tectonic plate research in the future.

Can Robots Care for Humans?

A look at new work that is being done by workers at the

Carnegie Mellon Universityin hopes of helping older people to live at home longer and better, with the help of robots. The bot currently in development, but not in production, is designed to help clean up and bring objects. It won’t replace humans, but it could help add to their efforts. 

Develop An App For NETGEAR’S Million Dollar App Contest & Win Up To $1,000,000!

develop networking app for Netgear, win one million dollars!If
you’re a master of creating networking apps, you’ve got a great chance
to score up to one million dollars in Las Vegas for your innovative
development skills.

Space Driving Record Broken by Robot

A new record was broken recently by a robot. In addition to being able to beat the worlds champions in chess it turns out that robots may be better at distance driving, at least in the endless void of space. The 1972, human set, record for the most distance driven in space was broken by a 2004 launced rover.

$16,000 Up For Grabs Via The 2013 Mobile Dev Challenge For Best Mobile App!

Develop mobile app, win cash prizes!Are you a stellar mobile app innovator who needs a good excuse to show off your work? Any sort of mobile app can be thrown into the running, as long as it’s excellent!

Ekoore Python S3 Convertible Tablet Juggles Windows 8, Android, Ubuntu Linux

The unique Python S3
hybrid tablet computer from Ekoore appears to be the only example of
its kind that can be factory shipped with three switchable operating
systems.

Gecko Robot Can Climb

New work from researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology had prouced a light weight robot that is modeled after the high climbing gecko robot. The mostly plastic robot is set up with a low melting goo on its feet that allows the robot to climb vertical surfaces.

Roll 20 is Bringing the Spirit of D&D to the Silicon Screen

Although this isn’t necessarily my regular fare (if indeed I can be
said to have anything of the sort), I’d argue that it’s close enough to
video games that it qualifies for this blog. After all, a great many
video games could very well be said to owe their roots to table-top
roleplaying; D&D is considered the grandfather of all RPGs by many.
But we’re getting a touch off track, dear readers. Today, I’d like to discuss an innovative new tool known as Roll 20.